{"id":2451432,"date":"2019-11-22T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T07:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=316469"},"modified":"2019-11-22T00:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T07:58:00","slug":"subaru-owners-suspect-a-pattern-of-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/subaru-owners-suspect-a-pattern-of-vandalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Subaru owners suspect a pattern of vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Have a blue Subaru? You might want to keep an eye on it.<\/p>\n

In the past month, several Glenwood Springs residents have had their cars vandalized, and there appears to be a pattern.<\/p>\n

Each person reports that his or her blue Subaru has been scratched with a key or some other kind of sharp-edged tool.<\/p>\n

When Jacki Lohman\u2019s midnight blue Outback was keyed in October, she was upset.<\/p>\n

Lohman and her husband had parked on Blake Street and went to the Ghost Walk event.<\/p>\n

She commented to her husband that evening how nice it was to live in a community with low crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe irony of it was that we woke up the next morning and had been vandalized,\u201d Lohman said.<\/p>\n

When she took it to the auto shop for a $5,000 paint job, the mechanics told her they were working on a similar Subaru that also was scratched in the same way.<\/p>\n

Lohman posted pictures of the damage Oct. 21 on a popular Facebook community group.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf it happened to me and someone else, then maybe there\u2019s somebody out there who has a vendetta with someone who has a blue Subaru,\u201d Lohman said in an interview.<\/p>\n

Nearly a month later, Brynn Hays posted on another community group that her blue Outback had been scratched.<\/p>\n

Hays noticed the scratch on the passenger side of her vehicle when she was outside Lowes on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of unsettling for our little valley town,\u201d Hays said. \u201cI can\u2019t fathom why somebody would do that to someone else. It\u2019s just crazy to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The police officially closed Lohman\u2019s case without any leads, but if it\u2019s a pattern, Lohman believes there might be cause to reopen an investigation.<\/p>\n

Neither Lohman nor Hays can think of someone angry enough with them to scratch their car.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like a lot of people drive blue Subaru Outback here. It\u2019s a staple of Colorado,\u201d Hays said.<\/p>\n

Whether the recent vandalism to blue Subarus is a targeted pattern by one individual or coincidence, it is typically difficult for police to catch a suspect for keying a car.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of the time, it\u2019s pretty hard to prove\u201d who keyed a car, acting Glenwood Springs Police chief Bill Kimminau said.<\/p>\n

If someone is caught on camera scratching a car, or there was a witness, that makes it easier to identify suspects.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery once in a while you get lucky and whoever did it starts to run their mouth to somebody about what they did,\u201d Kimminau added.<\/p>\n

But in general, most instances of car scratching isn\u2019t random.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of times, whoever the victim is has an idea of who (the suspect) is. It\u2019s usually not random, somebody is mad about somebody else about something,\u201d Kimminau said.<\/p>\n

tphippen@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have a blue Subaru? You might want to keep an eye on it. In the past month, several Glenwood Springs residents have had their cars vandalized, and there appears to be a pattern. Each person reports that his or her blue Subaru has been scratched with a key or some other kind of sharp-edged tool. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2451432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-03 02:31:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}